Discovery Channel? DISCOVERY Channel? You and your newfangled fancy pants cable channels. Back in the day, we didn't have A&E or History, or Discovery. We had PBS. And it was free. Except for Pledge week.
I believe that Sun's Blackbox uses water cooling for refrigeration between racks, not as a method of cooling the server hardware directly. Like the sibling poster says, too much risk of leakage near the electrical bits. With however many gallons/sec Blackbox requires though, you can turn a lot of hot air back into cold air and just move it around in a circle.
Here on earth, tiny fuzzy fibers have been found in salt dating back almost 250 million years making it the oldest known evidence of life on earth.
What the article actually *says*, is that the fibers themselves are 250 million years old, making them the oldest known biologically-produced material. There's obviously older evidence of life to be found on Earth.
While I'm nitpicking, "Earth" is capitalized, as it is a proper name.
> Where I used to work, they *refused* to let me run OS X or Linux. > I even offered to pay for my own computer. This is in a large > multi-national development shop, and also another time in a > government department.
Well duh. First off, anyone concerned with your desktop is helpdesk, not systems administration. They might call themselves sysadmins, but if they work on your Windows desktop, they're not. Second off, if you really really gotta have that linux/mac desktop, then why on earth are you applying for jobs at big multinationals and the government? The reasons they gave you are absolutely 100% bog-standard with just about everyone over say 5000 employees.
Like the grandparent poster, I have to maintain an ever growing pile of poorly written applications in every language available. This is because, unlike you, I work in a small company where the developers get freedom to run whatever desktop they want, and write code in practically any language they want. I assure you, the opposite end of the spectrum is just as bad. Developers thinking they know what a production environment is because they managed to get SuSE installed at home is a *huge* problem.
I use sshfs because it is easier and more convenient for me than bothering with Samba.
I've heard more and more people saying this lately. Why not use NFS? It saves the crypto overhead, is massively easy to set up on both the client and server side, etc etc. Agree about Samba though - using it for *nix-to-*nix shares is idiotic.
Seriously people, this tag is getting massively overused. Dell making a cell phone is not the same thing as, say, implanting neural tissue from a pig into paralyzed children or building robots with machine guns. The worst thing that could go wrong here is that Dell might make a shitty phone and lose money. BFD.
Anyone else who's sick of whatcouldpossiblygowrong abuse, please go ahead and put in a !whatcouldpossiblygowrong into the tags box.
Sure there are legitimate reasons to do this - one of them is cheap datacenter fail-over. If I have web servers colocated in two different datacenters with two different ISPs, and one of them goes down, I can change the TTL on my DNS records to, say 30 seconds, and point all the addresses to the other location. The short short TTL will cause global DNS to be updated much more quickly than normal, and my web site's traffic won't dead-end.
On the other hand, I defintiely see ISPs that don't respect DNS TTLs anyway.
They'll just be getting the chips from Samsung or STM, same as everyone else. Seagate's expertise is in making spindles and drive controllers. I'm not saying they only thing they have to add to the technology is their name, but... well actually, that's exactly what I'm saying. I'd much rather buy a SSD (a kind of stupid acronym in itself - there *is* no "disk") from say STM or Samsung or one of the actual manufacturers.
Well, from a libertarian (small "l", the party is a bunch of nutcases) point-of-view, gun control, DRM, and hate speech laws all fall on the same side of the fence. I think that a lot of "liberal" polititians have forgotten the root of that word.
A while back, I complained to my Senator, Diane Feinstein about how the Broadcast flag would cut into time-shifting and other fair use rights, and that it was basically corporate welfare to preserve a flagging industry in the face of a changing environment. Here's the response I got:
Thank you for writing to me about the digital broadcast
flag. I appreciate hearing from you.
I feel strongly that we must prevent the theft of copyrighted
works, and that includes digital television (DTV) programming.
As we move forward in the digital age, it is increasingly easy for
unauthorized copies of copyrighted works to be made and illegally
distributed. Over-the-air digital content is the easiest to pirate.
As we contemplate the use of new technologies to protect
copyrighted works, we must pay careful attention to ensure that a
balance is struck between competitive protections and individual
consumer interests. It is important to allow for the continued fair
use of copyrighted material, even while we seek to stop
unauthorized reproductions from being illegally distributed outside
the home and over the Internet.
Again, thank you for writing. Please know that as the
Senate considers legislation of the broadcast flag, I will be sure to
keep your views in mind.
Diane Feinstein is what I call a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. She's pro-drug war, pro big media, anti-consumer rights, and is a socially conservative fiscal liberal. Her and Joe Lieberman give progressives a bad name.
Taking a page from the Republicans' play book, I would like say that Senator Feinstein is a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. She's totally beholden to large corporate interests, is a big-time drug warrior, has massively expanded California's prison system, and generally has little to no interest in upholding traditional liberal (as in, "liberty") ideals. Like Lieberman, she's the worst combination of social conservative and economic liberal.
Hey Wayne, multiply that $200/employee/year by, let's say, 50 million people in the US who use email in their workplace. Not such a small number anymore, is it? You're right that dealing with spam isn't terribly expensive for any single company, but for the US economy as a whole, it's a multi-billion dollar problem.
We're already seeing the after-effects of "everyone in the world taking as much effort to solve the spam problem". The spammers have doubled their throughput over the course of a couple months and started using CAPTCHA techniques to bypass filters. No, I think it's going to take some serious international strong-arming ("We're going to impose tariffs on your exports until you start arresting spammers") to deal with it this time. You can't use a technical fix for a social (or in this case, criminal) problem.
Given that the summary itself says that this is not about the open-source development model, I've got to conclude that the headline is a troll. You can apply the full-disclosure model of security notification to any software, open or closed.
This is about whether the finders of security vulnerabilities give the vendor a grace period to fix the problem before disclosing the vulnerability to the general public. It has nothing to do with open source.
if you ask me it's really lame that there is no generic ide fallback.
There is. Go to the device manager and find your IDE controller. Click "update driver" and then manually choose a driver from the list. Select "Generic IDE DEvice" or whatever they call it. After this driver is installed, you can reboot the machine with a completely different motherboard.
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because Bill Gates is a Jehovah's witness and so nothing can work on St. Swithin's day.
I tried this and got various different messages on each reload. It looks like the server is just calling fortune with the BOFH excuses file. Still unlikely to be a real press release though.
I get around the whole problem by having 20:20 vision. It works great; I can use a computer for 8-12 hours a day, read books, see things both close up and a long way off without having any of the hassle of glasses or pain and annoyance of contacts.
...is the actual address of the IT wiki in question. How do I get to this Splunk Base? (Splunk base is IMO the worst name of any Web2.0 company ever. Sounds like a euphemism for... well anyway...)
So come on editors, it's the announcement for the release of a new wiki, which despite the $DIETY-awful name, might be a useful resource. How about, you know, linking to it? I hear the web is good for that.
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Get off my lawn.
No it doesn't.
I believe that Sun's Blackbox uses water cooling for refrigeration between racks, not as a method of cooling the server hardware directly. Like the sibling poster says, too much risk of leakage near the electrical bits. With however many gallons/sec Blackbox requires though, you can turn a lot of hot air back into cold air and just move it around in a circle.
What the article actually *says*, is that the fibers themselves are 250 million years old, making them the oldest known biologically-produced material. There's obviously older evidence of life to be found on Earth.
While I'm nitpicking, "Earth" is capitalized, as it is a proper name.
Wow, where to start...
> Where I used to work, they *refused* to let me run OS X or Linux.
> I even offered to pay for my own computer. This is in a large
> multi-national development shop, and also another time in a
> government department.
Well duh. First off, anyone concerned with your desktop is helpdesk, not systems administration. They might call themselves sysadmins, but if they work on your Windows desktop, they're not. Second off, if you really really gotta have that linux/mac desktop, then why on earth are you applying for jobs at big multinationals and the government? The reasons they gave you are absolutely 100% bog-standard with just about everyone over say 5000 employees.
Like the grandparent poster, I have to maintain an ever growing pile of poorly written applications in every language available. This is because, unlike you, I work in a small company where the developers get freedom to run whatever desktop they want, and write code in practically any language they want. I assure you, the opposite end of the spectrum is just as bad. Developers thinking they know what a production environment is because they managed to get SuSE installed at home is a *huge* problem.
I've heard more and more people saying this lately. Why not use NFS? It saves the crypto overhead, is massively easy to set up on both the client and server side, etc etc. Agree about Samba though - using it for *nix-to-*nix shares is idiotic.
That was kind of my point, but I guess jokes about the halting problem and undecidability are a little over this crowd.
In what way is DRM *not* about restricting the usage of a file encoded with it?
...can they determine whether my program will halt or not?
Seriously people, this tag is getting massively overused. Dell making a cell phone is not the same thing as, say, implanting neural tissue from a pig into paralyzed children or building robots with machine guns. The worst thing that could go wrong here is that Dell might make a shitty phone and lose money. BFD.
Anyone else who's sick of whatcouldpossiblygowrong abuse, please go ahead and put in a !whatcouldpossiblygowrong into the tags box.
Sure there are legitimate reasons to do this - one of them is cheap datacenter fail-over. If I have web servers colocated in two different datacenters with two different ISPs, and one of them goes down, I can change the TTL on my DNS records to, say 30 seconds, and point all the addresses to the other location. The short short TTL will cause global DNS to be updated much more quickly than normal, and my web site's traffic won't dead-end.
On the other hand, I defintiely see ISPs that don't respect DNS TTLs anyway.
They'll just be getting the chips from Samsung or STM, same as everyone else. Seagate's expertise is in making spindles and drive controllers. I'm not saying they only thing they have to add to the technology is their name, but... well actually, that's exactly what I'm saying. I'd much rather buy a SSD (a kind of stupid acronym in itself - there *is* no "disk") from say STM or Samsung or one of the actual manufacturers.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2209+F9+11+02+9D+7 4+E3+5B+D8+41+56+C5+63+56+88+C0%22
Arthur C. Clarke has clearly never heard of World of Warcraft.
Well, from a libertarian (small "l", the party is a bunch of nutcases) point-of-view, gun control, DRM, and hate speech laws all fall on the same side of the fence. I think that a lot of "liberal" polititians have forgotten the root of that word.
A while back, I complained to my Senator, Diane Feinstein about how the Broadcast flag would cut into time-shifting and other fair use rights, and that it was basically corporate welfare to preserve a flagging industry in the face of a changing environment. Here's the response I got:
Diane Feinstein is what I call a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. She's pro-drug war, pro big media, anti-consumer rights, and is a socially conservative fiscal liberal. Her and Joe Lieberman give progressives a bad name.
Taking a page from the Republicans' play book, I would like say that Senator Feinstein is a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. She's totally beholden to large corporate interests, is a big-time drug warrior, has massively expanded California's prison system, and generally has little to no interest in upholding traditional liberal (as in, "liberty") ideals. Like Lieberman, she's the worst combination of social conservative and economic liberal.
And I say this as a life-long democrat.
Hey Wayne, multiply that $200/employee/year by, let's say, 50 million people in the US who use email in their workplace. Not such a small number anymore, is it? You're right that dealing with spam isn't terribly expensive for any single company, but for the US economy as a whole, it's a multi-billion dollar problem.
We're already seeing the after-effects of "everyone in the world taking as much effort to solve the spam problem". The spammers have doubled their throughput over the course of a couple months and started using CAPTCHA techniques to bypass filters. No, I think it's going to take some serious international strong-arming ("We're going to impose tariffs on your exports until you start arresting spammers") to deal with it this time. You can't use a technical fix for a social (or in this case, criminal) problem.
Given that the summary itself says that this is not about the open-source development model, I've got to conclude that the headline is a troll. You can apply the full-disclosure model of security notification to any software, open or closed.
This is about whether the finders of security vulnerabilities give the vendor a grace period to fix the problem before disclosing the vulnerability to the general public. It has nothing to do with open source.
if you ask me it's really lame that there is no generic ide fallback.
There is. Go to the device manager and find your IDE controller. Click "update driver" and then manually choose a driver from the list. Select "Generic IDE DEvice" or whatever they call it. After this driver is installed, you can reboot the machine with a completely different motherboard.
I tried this and got various different messages on each reload. It looks like the server is just calling fortune with the BOFH excuses file. Still unlikely to be a real press release though.
1990 called - they want their IBM mainframe back.
I get around the whole problem by having 20:20 vision. It works great; I can use a computer for 8-12 hours a day, read books, see things both close up and a long way off without having any of the hassle of glasses or pain and annoyance of contacts.
I highly recommend it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22It+features+rule s+based+logging+and+can+perform+content%22
Way to shameless rip off other people's work.
...is the actual address of the IT wiki in question. How do I get to this Splunk Base? (Splunk base is IMO the worst name of any Web2.0 company ever. Sounds like a euphemism for... well anyway...)
So come on editors, it's the announcement for the release of a new wiki, which despite the $DIETY-awful name, might be a useful resource. How about, you know, linking to it? I hear the web is good for that.